Health Plan Pushes for Help for Small Physician Practices

At our physician recruiting firm we receive a lot of feedback on the government assistance with updating physician records to electronic records. Although the updates are proven to provide better information more easily accessible to physicians and to share amongst physicians and other specialists and proven to save money, the process of updating all patient records can seem overwhelming to a physician practice, particularly a smaller physician practice without as many administrative resources.

A managed care health insurer wants to help regional health IT extension centers with their support of small physician practices that it fears could fly under the radar.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has awarded grants to set up 60 extension centers across the nation to offer hands-on help to providers in putting EHRs into practice. One of ONC's goals is to give small providers the technical resources they need to meet meaningful use requirements in order to qualify for incentive payments under the HITECH Act.

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